The Shark Tank was hinting yesterday about a major endorsement to come next week, although I wasnt sure if that was an April Fools joke or not. And if it wasnt, I figured the obvious suspects were Palin or, more importantly, Jeb Bush.

Surprise.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will campaign with Senate candidate Marco Rubio.

The two will appear together Monday in Miami, where Giuliani is expected to endorse Rubio in the Republican primary against Gov. Charlie Crist.

In a statement released by the Rubio campaign, Giuliani said, Marco Rubio is one of the Republican Partys true rising stars. Hes a bold leader who will bring common sense to Washington where its badly needed.

Why is one of the partys most famous RINOs siding against the moderate in the race? Lets join Mark Halperin and John Heilemann on the campaign trail in 2007

In July, 07, Crist visited with Giuliani in the Hamptons: Id like to support you, Crist said.

The next day, Giuliani shared the news with his aide Tony Carbonetti. I think we got him; it went very well, Giuliani said.

Carbonetti was familiar enough with Giulianis lexicon to know what that meant: Rudy thought it was a done deal. Seeing Giulianis strong poll numbers in Florida, Crist had apparently concluded that Rudy was the horse to ride. Carbonetti, a no-nonsense fixer whod been Rudys chief of staff at City Hall, followed up with Crists main political guy, George LeMieux, flying to Tallahassee to meet with him and plan the endorsement.

Anyone would fared much better against 0bozo than McLame. Heck, I doubt if McCain even wanted to win at all. What kind of candidate, goes into an election, and the first thing he does, is to effectively cripple his own campaign by banning any attacks against his opponent on the worst things his opponent has done in his life? Sarah Palin couldn't understand why McCain banned any attacks on 0bama about Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers etc, and neither could almost anyone else.

Mixed feelings about Rude. He runs for president, which he had little chance of winning because of his NY lib, Republican credentials. But he won’t run for governor or senator, where a win would be a big win for the Republican party. Still, he wants to be a player, but not where he could do the most good.

Giuliani aides were visibly upset Saturday at the news that the popular Florida governor would be backing McCain. Giuliani campaign sources said Crist pledged his endorsement to Giuliani in the early fall, when McCains campaign appeared dead and Giuliani was leading the state by double digits. But at the time, McCain supporters leaned on Crist to hold back and wait until after the New Hampshire primary.http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/26/612633.aspx

There is no such thing. McCain has done to much against conservatives and conservative interests in the last 8 years, that it's perfectly natural for conservatives to want to hit him back. Nothing "hysterical" about that.

And he would have been a much better president. At least he loves our country.”

I totally disagree. Rudy is a huge liberal, and because he had the R behind his name would not only have gotten libs behind his policy agendas, but Republicans who felt obligated to support him because of his position as “head of the party.” A Giuliani presidency would have been, probably, even more horrid than Obama’s has been because he would have the bipartisan support for liberal policies that Obama has lacked.

Nice try. This thread happens to be about Charlie Crist, turning round and backing McCain, after first of all promising to back Giuliani, and Gulliani now paying Crist back in kind. It's got everything to do with McCain. McCain deserves whatever he's getting.

Tell me something, if you are running for elections, and someone comes round to support you, you are going to refuse the backing because you don't agree with that person on everything? So going by your theory, all them red state Democrats who backed Reagan, so he was able to win a missive 49 states..Reagan should have rejected their support because they are Democrats, yes? Rubio is not turning round and supporting abortion or any of Guliani’s more liberal positions. He is just taking an endorsement from a guy that wants to have his revenge on Crist for stabbing him in the back.

Rudy Giuliani would have had a hard time winning more than a half-dozen states in 2008.

Even many "dark red" rural states would have a hard time supporting a short, bald Italian-American from New York City who speaks with a lisp and had a very liberal track record in the only elected position he ever held.

Rudy Giuliani never would have won either Florida or Pennsylvania. He ended up with something like one delegate to his name after the 2008 primary season, which tells me that there would have been massive numbers of Republican voters casting votes for third-party candidates on Election Day rather than vote for him.

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